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Thanks for the ideas techtard. My power settings are already on High Performance and always are. Same goes for the graphics card (max performance). Core parking has no effect on my 2500k, it's always at 100% readiness.
I actually should have updated my specs, windows is now installed and running off 1 HDD and games off the caviar black. Other than this and portal I have no issues in any other games.

Incidentally I just fixed portal

Core affinity to 1, fps max of 62 in the in game console. Vsync on and no stutter in sight. That's still with max settings so no sacrifices made YIPEE

Now I just have to sort out this strange beast of a game.

I'm currently on the EIDOS forums and it seems a number of people are still having stutter issues with DEUS EX HR so that's reassuring. I have emailed their customer support and have also been active on the STEAM forum.

I will post if anything gets resolved or if I come up with my own solution (as with portal)

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Well just to update you, a guy on the Eidos forums encouraged people to post to some gaming sites complaining that the stuttering was still an issue on various PC configs. I myself also emailed these sites and lo and behold, Joystiq actually posted a story

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I have been able to reduce the stuttering by running nvidias frame limiter at 60fps and using D3DOverrider rather than the ingame vsync/triple buffering but it still macrostutters/frameskips alot whilst moving into certain areas.

I'd say it's playable but not acceptable by any means. Not happy, the game looks awesome.

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I am pleased to say I finally fixed my game and I can now play it relatively stutter free at max DX11 settings. Here's how I sorted it -

- install latest beta drivers- use MSI Afterburner framerate limiter and set to 60fps, this has to be running in the background
- click play button on Steam for the game and select "Setup Deus Ex:Human Revolution" option.
- click "set to default" option, then ok
- click play button on Steam for the game and select "Play Deus Ex:Human Revolution"option which takes you into the game.
- Now select all your graphic options that you want (I play max DX11) but make sure to select the vsync and triple buffering option
-Load your save or start a new game wherever you are at

I have to carry out that same process in bold blue writing everytime I play the game to have a stutter free experience (Only tiny little saving stutters are apparent which is perfectly normal with mechanical HDDs). If I don't carry that procedure out it will have GPU usage issues, frameskipping the whole works. I genuinely feel there may be a problem with the startup initialisation of the game and for some people, like myself. it is not hooking correctly. A buggy launcher maybe?

I'm now able to fully get lost in the Deus Ex world and enjoy the game....it's awesome!!

I am pleased to say I finally fixed my game and I can now play it relatively stutter free at max DX11 settings. Here's how I sorted it -

- install latest beta drivers- use MSI Afterburner framerate limiter and set to 60fps, this has to be running in the background
- click play button on Steam for the game and select "Setup Deus Ex:Human Revolution" option.
- click "set to default" option, then ok
- click play button on Steam for the game and select "Play Deus Ex:Human Revolution"option which takes you into the game.
- Now select all your graphic options that you want (I play max DX11) but make sure to select the vsync and triple buffering option
-Load your save or start a new game wherever you are at

I have to carry out that same process in bold blue writing everytime I play the game to have a stutter free experience (Only tiny little saving stutters are apparent which is perfectly normal with mechanical HDDs). If I don't carry that procedure out it will have GPU usage issues, frameskipping the whole works. I genuinely feel there may be a problem with the startup initialisation of the game and for some people, like myself. it is not hooking correctly. A buggy launcher maybe?

I'm now able to fully get lost in the Deus Ex world and enjoy the game....it's awesome!!

I am pleased to say I finally fixed my game and I can now play it relatively stutter free at max DX11 settings. Here's how I sorted it -

- install latest beta drivers- use MSI Afterburner framerate limiter and set to 60fps, this has to be running in the background
- click play button on Steam for the game and select "Setup Deus Ex:Human Revolution" option.
- click "set to default" option, then ok
- click play button on Steam for the game and select "Play Deus Ex:Human Revolution"option which takes you into the game.
- Now select all your graphic options that you want (I play max DX11) but make sure to select the vsync and triple buffering option
-Load your save or start a new game wherever you are at

I have to carry out that same process in bold blue writing everytime I play the game to have a stutter free experience (Only tiny little saving stutters are apparent which is perfectly normal with mechanical HDDs). If I don't carry that procedure out it will have GPU usage issues, frameskipping the whole works. I genuinely feel there may be a problem with the startup initialisation of the game and for some people, like myself. it is not hooking correctly. A buggy launcher maybe?

I'm now able to fully get lost in the Deus Ex world and enjoy the game....it's awesome!!

And how does my reply of "I never had stutters happen to me" preclude you from helping others that have similar issues? If I say, "that won't help me", then maybe your response would have been understandable. Yet that's not what I posted. Let me use the same smiley, this time in an appropriate manner. :shadedshu

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And how does my reply of "I never had stutters happen to me" preclude you from helping others that have similar issues? If I say, "that won't help me", then maybe your response would have been understandable. Yet that's not what I posted. Let me use the same smiley, this time in an appropriate manner. :shadedshu

I never said that your reply prevented me from helping others but it simply added nothing to the help I provided. You might as well have just put "I had eggs for breakfast this morning" and it would have held the same value. (ie worthless :shadedshu)

You see, some people with certain configs have had stuttering issues with the game,myself included. Thousands of others have had no issues like yourself. Personally, I think Frick nailed it with his comment

Had a couple of PMs on the Steam forum to say that my fix had helped them so it may be worth a shot to those who are having problems. That's me done with this thread.

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Deus Ex HR recieved an update on Steam today and I now have no stuttering whatsoever fully maxed.....I can now finally play the damn game all the way through without any fixes/sacrificial goats or any adjustments. Thank you Eidos

Everyone complained how hard it was to fight the first boss. It wasn't for me. And i was in full stealth tactic till that point. I never even thought of going full force against him anyway. And i didn't. There are gas canisters in that room, throwing them at him will poison him, making the job far easier than by doing anthing else. Basically i finished him only with things in that room and i haven't really used any other weapon than EMP grenade soon after i've entered the room.

So, run in the room, hide behind the barrier, toss over the EMP grenade to shut off his augs, then you have gas canisters on the right side (very close). Toss it at him. Do the same with explosive barrels. Repeat. You won't even need a weapon to do it other than EMP to make your life easier since he'll be without augs for the time being.

So I finished Director's Cut. These are things I made note of while playing it:

1. I noticed problems with the music looping quickly especially coming out of Detroit's and Hengsha's LIMB Clinic. It doesn't stop until you go somewhere else where it starts playing another song.

2. The commentary should have non-colliable models giving you a visual cue as to where they are and whether or not they have been played before.

3. When a commentary is playing, I expect to be able to press the play commentary button again to stop it in case I heard it before. There's no way I have found to stop commentary except to hit the quickload button.

4. Did not get Factory Zero achievement when I should have upon arriving in Singapore.

5. Commentary at the end of the Sarif Manufacturing Plant mission said CASIE wouldn't work on the terrorist guy because you wouldn't get two Praxis points before it. I did manage to get two Praxis points and bought CASIE knowing that social fight was coming. To my disappointment, all it showed was the presuassion level and some information about him. It didn't even show what type of character he was.

6. Disappointed with the second and third boss fights. In the second, you have to hack to turn on the turrets and you are very exposed when hacking. It is basically set up to make you use a auto-hack device and that's annoying. It needs more work/options for those that enter the area without a weapon. As for the third boss (Namir), using the air vent and hacking the console works but Namir often attacked me while I was hacking through the glass. It was annoying. On top of that, it seems to be sheer luck that Namir stands in front of the robots and uncloaks so they attack him. Both of these boss fights took me about five attempts and they were quite frustrating.

7) Hyron Project battle is unchanged from what I could tell.

Overall, the commentary was very interesting (a LOT was cut in production). The changes to the boss battles were half-assed. For the record, just after finishing Hyron Project battle, I had ALL augments unlocked and fully upgraded. They added New Game+ so that save is going to be very useful if/when I decided to replay it.

1. The first three boss fights now have solutions where you can kill them without using a gun (hint, they all involve turning turrets/robots on). To achieve this, their maps were expanded somewhat.

2. Missing Link is fully integrated into Human Revolution. After the Hensha port assault, you play Missing Link.
2a) You still lose all your stuff at the beginning of ML
2b) Depending on how you answer during the torture scene at the beginning, you can either get all your lethal or non-lethal weapons back but with very little ammo (even if you were carrying a ton). Keep in mind that you don't have your inventory capacity upgrades anymore.
2c) At the end of ML, you lose all the Praxis kits you picked up in ML and get the ones back you had at 2a.
2d) At the end of ML, there is also a crate which has all of your weapons you didn't get back at 2b as well as all your other stuff (ammo, grenades, cyberpower bars, etc.).
2e) After you raid the crate in 2d, you are free to explore all of Rifleman Bank Station up to the first SAS (body scanner thing to go to the Detention Center). If you left any Praxis kits uncollected in this area, you can pick them up and keep them. You can also hack all unhacked doors and computers to get additional XP. It's a cake walk too because all cameras, turrets, and guards are disabled/gone.

3. It added an "extras" menu:
3a) A 45 minute documentary about the making of the game. It can be paused but you can't fast forward nor rewind. Also, when I alt+tab with it running, it CTD'd the game. If you're going to watch it, be prepared to watch the whole thing.
3d) Developer Commentary on/off which pops up when standing in palces in the world where the radio pops up saying "press <bindable key> for developer commentary" or something like that. Note that most cutscenes have developers talking during them. I ended up watching all the cutscenes twice: once listening to the commentary and once listening to the cutscene.

4. New Game Plus. Same as normal but you get all your Praxis kits you had in the previous save (potentially all of them) right after the prologue.

Those are the changes I can recall.

FYI, on Steam, you get 50% off of Director's Cut if you own Human Revolution and 25% off if you own Missing Link. Yes, they stack, so you can get up to 75% off on Director's Cut if you own both. For me, that made Director's Cut $4.99. Worth it, in my opinion.